News
Visual Studio Code 1.1.0
The monthly Visual Studio Code update is out with bug fixes including improved Node.js debugging and setup that improves portability.
Grafana 3.0 Stable Released
If you love metrics as much as we do at Litmus, you're as excited as we are for the Grafana 3.0 release.
The InfoQ Podcast: Mads Torgersen on C# 7 and Beyond
Mads Torgersen who leads the C# language design process at Microsoft talks on this podcast about what's coming in C#.
Code
What's new in the .NET Framework 4.6.2 Preview
This article summarizes key new features and improvements in the upcoming .NET Framework 4.6.2.
.NET Core RC2 – Improvements, Schedule, and Roadmap
The CLR team has finally announced a schedule for a "Go-Live" license and for their RTM. Expect .NET Core to ship end of June!
Yield return in C#
A good post that walks through Yield return - what it does and when you should use it.
Database
PostgreSQL Scalability: Towards Millions TPS
You don't always think about .NET and PostgreSQL as going together but with Npgsql you can bring them together. Recent performance improvements shows how PostgreSQL can approach 1,000,000 transactions per second.
Community Projects
Npgsql
Npgsql is the .NET data provider for PostgreSQL. It allows any program developed for .NET framework to access a PostgreSQL database server.
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